| THOU | In short, M used to be you (4) |
| FIFTHOFNOVEMBER | M used to be time for fireworks (5,2,8) |
| BERMUDATRIANGLE | Short's m'nage ? trois perhaps has a reputation for performing a disappearing act with the sailors ( |
| POSTMERIDIEM | Words in the abbreviation p.m. used for 'afternoon' (4,8) |
| ASSUMED | Like the name "M" used as an alias |
| WERE | Used to be you, I and the Engineers (4) |
| THEE | It used to be 'you' |
| BASH | Where you go to be, you hear, quiet (4) |
| BETRUE | "It-had-to-be-you;-I-wandered-around-and-finally-found-the-somebody-who;-Could-make-me-...,-could-make-me-be-blue;-And-even-be-glad,-just-to-be-sad-thinking-of-you"-(2,4) |
| OTHERS | "Some ... I've seen; Might never be mean; Might never be cross or try to be boss; But they wouldn't do," sang Doris Day in It Had To Be You |
| MITE | Could be, you say, just a little (4) |
| DALY | Tyne of "It Shoulda Been You" |
| LOVED | Boop Doop A Doop girl Helen Kane sang, "I want to be ... you, by you and nobody else but you" |
| FEELONESELF | How to be you, when Eon's fee fell to ridicule (4,7) |
| ITHAD | "___ to Be You"; short-lived Faye Dunaway/Robert Urich sitcom |
| TOBEY | Name in "It Had to Be You" |
| CRY | "It's All Right to ___" ("Free to Be ... You and Me" song) |
| HAD | Ginger Rogers has severe indecision before every scheduled marriage, until dream-lover Cornel Wilde appeared in It ... To Be You |
| MARLO | Actress Thomas of "Free to Be You and Me" |
| ONESELF | Feels, on reflection, to be you? (7) |
